§ 53. Mr. PILCHERasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been drawn to the disabilities inflicted upon separated persons in the collection of the Income Tax in such wise that the separated man receives a personal allowance of only £135 as against £225 for a man whose wife lives with him and is wholly maintained by him and is denied the allowance for a housekeeper which, under certain circumstances, a bachelor can obtain; and whether he can hold out hope of relief to such separated persons in the next Budget?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLThe allowance to a bachelor to which my hon. Friend apparently refers, is granted in respect of a female relative living with and maintained by him to look after young brothers or sisters of his. I understand that this allowance is in practice granted to a separated or divorced man in like case.